Select language to translate this lyric
We were homeward bound one night on the deep
Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
I dreamed a dream and I thought it true
Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew.
With 100 seamen he sailed away
To the frozen ocean in the month of May
To seek a passage around the pole
Where we poor sailors do sometimes go.
Through cruel hardships they vainly strove
Their ships on mountains of ice was drove
Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
Was the only one that ever came through
In Baffin's Bay where the whale fish blow
The fate of Franklin no man may know
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
Lord Franklin among his seamen do dwell
And now my burden it gives me pain
For my Lord Franklin I'd sail the main
Ten thousand pounds I would freely give
To know Lord Franklin, and where he lives.
- Album:
- Head And Heart
- HEAD & HEART
- This New Morning
- Eleven Songs
- Miscellaneous
- The Bottom Line Archive: In Their Own Words, Vol. 1 (Live)
- The Bottom Line Archive Series: In Their Own Words, Vol. 1
- Sunny Sailor Boy
- Bridge of Sorrow
- Rescue Mission
- This New Morning (Bonus Track Version)
- The Man Is Alive
- 2009 Bar/None Records Sampler
- Keeper of the Flame
- Dreams In America
- Salty Heaven
- A Celtic Season: A Windham Hill Collection
- Turf
- Select Sounds 1996
- The Acoustic Motorbike